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Referencing in the structural drawing - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD Facilities Management: Space Management
Referencing in the structural drawing
- [Voiceover] So we're in the 00_GND_FM_FIN drawing, obviously you'll be in 00_GND_FM, and what we need to do now is Reference in our GA drawing. So this is this drawing here, the GA drawing I've already got open, so we're gonna Reference this into the FM drawing and utilize the outlines of all of the rooms and the spaces for our space management. So if you look at that, I need to bring that entire ground floor of that building into my FM drawing. And I do this by way of External References or xrefs. So I go back to the FM drawing now, make sure you've got the FM drawing open like so, and what we're going to do, we're going to go the Insert tab here on the ribbon, and we're gonna use the Attach command. So I click on Attach, and you'll notice now it takes me into a folder where there's some drawings, they're not the right drawings. The right drawings are actually going to be in my Setting up a Facilities Drawing chapter there, which is the chapter we're in, I'm gonna go into the…
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